Therapists in California and Hawaii Are Striking for Mental Health Care Therapists in California and Hawaii Are Striking for Mental Health Care
The strike is the latest example of social justice unionism in the era of corporate health care.
Sep 8, 2022 / Dana Simon
WATCH: You Voted to Form a Union. Now What? WATCH: You Voted to Form a Union. Now What?
In the first installment of our new The Nation Explains video series, Jane McAlevey explains the core principles that can help workers win better contracts, faster.
Sep 1, 2022 / no-paywall / Jane McAlevey and The Nation Video
Workers Are Organizing Independently. Why Don’t Our Politicians Seem to Care? Workers Are Organizing Independently. Why Don’t Our Politicians Seem to Care?
It’s the only protection workers have against corporate resistance to unionizing.
Aug 23, 2022 / no-paywall / Katrina vanden Heuvel
With This Fast-Food Bill, California Could Help All Essential Workers With This Fast-Food Bill, California Could Help All Essential Workers
Gavin Newsom may have a chance to prove his commitment to the working class.
Aug 16, 2022 / no-paywall / Katrina vanden Heuvel
These Labor Unions Are Fighting to Keep Solitary Confinement These Labor Unions Are Fighting to Keep Solitary Confinement
A corrections officers’ union in New York is campaigning against new restrictions on solitary confinement—and it’s not the only union in the country opposing prison reforms.
Aug 16, 2022 / Victoria Law
Democrats Are Losing the Working Class, but You Shouldn’t Blame the Left Democrats Are Losing the Working Class, but You Shouldn’t Blame the Left
The reason people are disenchanted is that this economy doesn’t work for them.
Jul 26, 2022 / no-paywall / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Why Is This Union Leader Schmoozing With the Enemy? Why Is This Union Leader Schmoozing With the Enemy?
Liz Shuler, the head of the AFL-CIO, thinks it’s OK to open a conference alongside the would-be architects of labor’s destruction.
Jul 20, 2022 / Jonathan Rosenblum
The Green Transition Must Be Union-Powered The Green Transition Must Be Union-Powered
A conversation with scholar Matt Huber on climate strategy and class politics.
Jun 9, 2022 / Q&A / Sara Van Horn and Cal Turner
Immigrant Construction Workers Fight Back Against Exploitation Immigrant Construction Workers Fight Back Against Exploitation
Los Demolicionistas—“the Demolitionists”—have organized to stop nonunion employers from taking advantage of immigrant workers.
May 19, 2022 / Ashley Bishop
Graduate Workers at Indiana University Are on Strike and Fighting for Recognition Graduate Workers at Indiana University Are on Strike and Fighting for Recognition
The IU administration believes our work is marginal to the functioning of the university. Only a union can push back.
Apr 29, 2022 / StudentNation / Christopher Agostino